Data will be collected on the acceptance of the quiet sonic boom created by the X-59 in hopes of lifting the ban on commercial supersonic travel over land. The nose cone of a supersonic aircraft ...

The single-seat, three-engine jet is the first independently developed plane to exceed Mach 1 in level flight.

developer of the HyperX computer-aided engineering (CAE) solution, was chosen by Swift Engineering Inc. for structural sizing, analysis, and test validation of the low-boom X-59 aircraft’s nose cone.

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator has broken the sound barrier, becoming the first US-made civil aircraft to do so.

if we have faster airplanes, we don’t need as many.” Like Concorde, the XB-1 and Overture both have a long nose and a high angle of attack for takeoff and landing, which interrupts the pilots ...

The American-built civil supersonic jet is made from carbon fibre, and unlike Concorde’s droop nose, pilots will use an “augmented reality vision system” to see past its long nose for ...

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A prototype of a passenger jet meant to succeed Concorde will attempt to break the sound barrier for the first time on Tuesday. Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator is set to exceed Mach 1 (770 mph) in ...

New York Yankees icon and current YES Network analyst David Cone made it known last spring that he had no problem with the fact that then-Yankees outfielder Juan Soto wanted to reach free agency ...

Moment 'new Concorde' prototype breaks the sound barrier on test flight During the test flight, the aircraft reached an altitude of 34,000ft before accelerating to above Mach 1.0 speed, which is ...

A US company's prototype jet has broken the sound barrier in a demonstration it hopes will pave the way for a successor to the Concorde. Boom Supersonic's XB-1 is the first civilian aircraft to ...

Overture could be less costly than the Concorde Overture could revive the Concorde era and connect places like New York and London in less than four hours, and Seattle and Tokyo in less than five.